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[TSVN] Re: Re: Setting SVN properties using the config file

From: Andreas Keil <rien_at_nurfuerspam.de>
Date: 2005-09-10 03:14:03 CEST

"Simon Large" <simon@skirridsystems.co.uk> wrote in message
news:43214C1F.2040904@skirridsystems.co.uk...
> Andreas Keil wrote:
>> I can reproduce this but I think that considering an application MIME
>> type incompatible with text files isn't quite right. Even the Tortoise
>> docs say:
>>
>> "For example, if a file's svn:mime-type property is set to a non-text
>> MIME type (generally, something that doesn't begin with text/, though
>> there are exceptions), Subversion will assume that the file contains
>> binary-that is, not human-readable-data."
>>
>> Therefore, I think that non "text/" MIME types shouldn't automatically
>> considered to be binary. But as you said, I think, we'd need a MIME
>> expert here.
>
> It is Subversion which makes that interpretation, not TSVN. If you really
> want to challenge it you must do so on the subversion mailing list.
>
> Simon

OK, I'll try it on gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.devel which seems
to be the appropriate group for that.

Thank you Simon for pointing me there.

Andreas.

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